Dial-up bitrate listening test - Finished!

[rjamorim]

Hello.

I'd like to announce the results of the Dial-up bitrates (32kbps) listening test

Nero Digital Audio won, tied to CodingTechnologies' MP3pro. Ogg Vorbis, WMA Std., 7kHz lowpass, Real Audio and QDesign Music Codec come in second place, with Vorbis a little below the others. Lame loses.

The results page is here:
http://www.rjamorim.com/test/32kbps/results.html

For those in a hurry, here are the zoomed overall results:
http://www.rjamorim.com/test/32kbps/plot18z.png

Big thanks to everyone that helped and participated.

Best regards;

Roberto Amorim.

[niamh]

I'm not surprised nero HE-AAC wins in this torture test :D.
Vorbis failed quite badly, considering how high it is at 128 kbps tests..
Considering the results for speech too(nero wins alone on female speech and still wins on male speech), it seems the perfect solution for space saving, low bitrate DVD backups ;)
I'm quite glad that the 2 codecs I use for my movies(nero and mp3pro) are the first two on the list......shows my ears aren't so bad after all.

[KpeX]

Thanks for this and all of your tests, roberto. They are one of my favorite de-zealotizing tools. Hopefully your retirement from listening tests isn't too permanent.